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Quality and characteristic of Intercultural Competence
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Demographic, technology, economic, and peace imperative
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Characteristics of Communication Outcome
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The first outcome is understanding what the other is trying to communicate, and the second outcome is reaching an agreement on issue that has been discussed
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Communication
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is a symbolic, interpretive, transactional, contextual process in which people create shared meaning
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Symbol
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a word, action, or object that stands for or represents a unit of meaning
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Transactional view
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all participants are simultaneously interpreting multiple messages at that moment, 2 people go back and forth
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Actional view
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communication is a one way flow
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Interactional view
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this includes a receiver who receives the message and response with feedback about how the message was received
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Feedback
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a response to the sender about how the message was recieved
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Characteristics of transactional model
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there are two people both communicating back and forth with each other, goal is not to persuade, no one is just a sender or receiver
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Context
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the certain situation or setting where all communication takes play
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Interpersonal Communication
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is a form of communication that involves a small number of individuals who are interacting exclusively with one another and who therefore have the ability both to adapt their messages specifically for those others and to obtain immediate interpretation from them
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Global village
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used to describe the consequences of the mass medias ability to bring events from the far reaches of the globe into people’s homes, thus shrinking the world
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Recent immigrants to united states
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latinos
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How is cultured learn
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learned from people you interact with and socialize with.
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Norms
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refer to rules for appropriate behavior, which provide the expectations people have of one another and of themselves.
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Value
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refers to what a group of people define as good and bad or what it regards as important
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Belief
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refers to the basic understanding of a group of peopleabout what the world is like or what is true or false
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Social practice
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are the predictable behavior patterns that members of a culture typically follow
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Ethnicity
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is a term that is used to refer to a wide variety of groups who might share a language, historical origin, religion, or cultural system
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Sub-culture
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refer to a racial and ethnic minority group that shares both a common nation-state with other culture and some aspects of larger culture. EX Asian American, Native American, African American
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Race
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commonly refers to certain physical similiarites, such as skim color, or eye shape
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What are forces and which create culture
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forces are things deeply embedded in cultures members, and the ones that create culture are history, ecology, technology, biology, institutional networks, and interpersonal communication patterns
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Cold climate characteristics-LOW CONTACT
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less verbally dramatic, less socially isolated, less authoritarian in their commincation styles, more tolerant of ambiguity, more likely to avoid touching others in social situations, and lower in feeling of self importance or self worth.
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Critical factors for determining children IQ score
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educational and economic advantages, along with the pre birth intrauterine environment are critical factors
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How non-verbal systems help us
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-provides information about the meaning associated with the ise of space, time, touch, and gesture. Help define the boundaries between members and nonmembers of a culture.
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Intracultural communication
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is used to describe one end point of the continuum
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Interracial communication
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used to explain differences in communication between members of a racial group who are all members of same nation
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Cross culture communication
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involves a comparison of interactions among people from the same culture to those from another
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Melting pot
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a huge container that can withstand high heats and can therefore be used to mix and melt together metals.
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Strength
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it can be very strong if they all melted together, and weakness is that it is very inaccurate because cultures tend to stick to their own thing
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Tributaries
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referring to the streams and all these smaller streams converge into one great one. Its strength is that it can still make a cultural group have their own unique identity, but weak because it is hard to believe that all these small cultures will eventually go into the main culture
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Tapestry
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- cloth that is made up of many different threads. Very strong when they are held together but its really unchangeable once you put it all together
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Garden Salad
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distinct blends of different unique things, a garden salad suggest a firmness and stability , has no fixed arrangements.
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Being called N American
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America refers to north and south American, and north Americans can be considered Canadian so we prefer US Americans
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Dominant culture
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when people here that US is dominant that means they have economic and political power and all other countries are subordinates to them
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Characteristics of personality
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context, appropriateness, effectiveness, knowledge, motivation, and action
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Culture-specific information
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knowledge which should include information about the forces that maintain the cultures uniqueness and facts about the cultural patterns that predominate
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DIE
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description, interpretation, and evaluation
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Shared interpretations
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actions that are regarded as appropriate and effective behaviors within a culture
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Being orientation
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a preference for a gradual transformation of the human condition
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Doing orientation
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is a more direct intervention
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High Context cultures
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prefer to use high context messages in which most of the meaning is either implied by the physical setting or presumed to be part of the individuals internalized beliefs
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Low context culture
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use low context messages in which a majority of information is vested in explicit code
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Power Distance
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refers to the degree to which the culture believes that institutional and organizational power should be distributed unequally and the decisions of the power holders should be challenged or accepted
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Uncertainty avoidance
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the extent to which the culture feels threatened by ambiguous, uncertain situations and tries to avoid them by establishing more structure
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Individualism vs collectivism
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the degree to which a culture relies on oneself of the group
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Masculinity-femininity
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- degree to which culture values “masculine” behaviors, such as assertiveness and acquisition of wealth, feminine behaviors such as caring for others
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Time orientation
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refers to a person’s point of reference about life and work
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Indulgence versus restraint
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cultures with high indulgence encourage pleasure, enjoyment, spending, consumption where restraint encourage control of such hedonistic gratification, and the pleasure and enjoyment are discourage
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Monumentalism vs self effacement-
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cultures with high monumentalism want people to be like monuments which is proud, stable, upstanding, and self effacement encourage humility, flexibility, adaptation to the situation, and feeling comfortable about life’s paradoxes and inconsistencies
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